Let's just be honest, Marty was an arrogant blowhard. Extremely talented, but a blowhard.
My Marty classic moment (oh, yes, there were many) was when he was broadcasting live from the Boys State Basketball Tournament while sitting in Wells Fargo Arena. He was doing a live commercial for First Federal Bank and did a nice job of getting through the commercial, but then he started talking about his girlfriend who apparently was doing business with Wells Fargo at the time. I don't recall exactly what the deal was, but Marty just went off on a tirade about how he was going to insist his girlfriend move her accounts out of Wells Fargo Bank and into First Fedeal. He went on and on and on about what a lousy bank Wells Fargo was. It is bad enough to blast an advertiser's competitor by name, but while he was sitting in that competitor's sponsored arena? As I listened to this unfold, my initial thought was that there was probably a poor, unsuspecting advertising sales person for KXNO who was calling on Wells Fargo Bank, trying to sell them advertising, who just might get blind-sided the next time he or she stopped in on a sales call. If Joel McCrea didn't call him into the office the next day and let him have it for that tirade I would have been surprised.
Marty was simply a "pink slip" waiting to happen!
I've listened to Perrault on a few occasions and he might have seemed controversial to some, but certainly a different kind of controversial than was Marty Tirrell.
